The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1887-07-15
WASHINGTON wAnBL1NGs.

OOooeA6S
kee, OF the associated press.
Richard Lancaster, 86 years old. and
the Oldest colored Odd Fellow in the
world, was buried on Tuesday.
The district commission are going to
try concrete curbstone and gutter,
with four inch chamber in it for the
passage of electric light and telephone
wires
Attorney general Garland is keeping
bachelors hall while his mother, Mrs.
Hubbard, his daughter and two sons
are OH a tour of northern watering
places.
The president and his wife do not
stay in town to listen to the concerts
given them by the Marine band on the
white house lawn on Wednesday and
Saturday evenings.
Col. Canaday, seryeant-at-arms of the
senate, has taken an interest in the
Younnacannotta and Ellen Jane gold
mines in Arizona, of which Gen. Rose
Grams is a large stockholder.
Dewitt G. Sprague, the Grand Army
poet, was promoted with vengeance,
going up from clerkship of class one,
in the sixth auditors office, to class
three, in the third auditors office.
Secretary Lamar is going to do as
the president wants him to do in the
indemnity land question. Guiford
Miller, the farmer in Washington ter
ritory, who dehed the railroad, will get
his farm.
Tall and handsome Charley Coon, ex-
assistant secretary Of the treasury, has
just returned from a fortnight in Lon
don. lie saw Slr. Blaine there. and saws
the English admire the magnetic man
sincerely.
Col. Muldrow, first assistant secre-
tary Of the interior, is spending his va
cation building Il cresmery on his
plantation, i'll Mississippi. He uses
artificial ice. and makes 500 mounds of
Jersey butter every week.
Senator Henderson, of Nebraska, is
the youngest looking statesman in the
senate. Yet he Was ;.l Ohio brigadier
in the war. "Polities have quietcd
down i'll Nebraska" says General Man
derson;" am giving attention to moth
ing except the building Of small
house. l do not care to build in Wash
ington. Omaha is my home"
Edward NJ, Stanton was never open
to the charge of nepotisln. The only
relative OF his that the present a,lmis-
tration found in office was Mrs. Nancy
Stanton, his brothers widow. who had
u $4,000 place in the quartermaster
generals office. She was examined in
June for promotion and passed well,
standing 81. Her promotion was to
be reduced two grades, cutting her
salary down $500 wear.
"Dear Hubbell," who disappeared
in the wilds of Michigan, years ago,
will reappear in public life. He is
bondsman for Levi Bacon, the late
cashier Of the patent office, W hose good
natured habit of lending INDECENT
clerks advances OH their salary pro-
duced a shortage of S11.50O. EX-con-
gresham llubbell will be called on for
half of this sum unless The other
boRdsman is no good, when he will be
sued for all of it.
Judge Poland's death was shock to
good many old timers here who knew
and loved the old fellow. He visited
Washington every winter. Last win
ter he looked as hale and strong as
ever, and said he enjoyed perfect
health. 1t was the first time he ever
discarded his famous brass buttons.
Everything goes so smoothly with
me" said the old Judge, "that | thought
l would take them off just for little
excitement"
A delegation from seveaal local
Grand Army posts called on the presi-
dent, and are not happy at the result.
An ex-soldier, holding an Office in
San Francisco, bought government
supplies of some sort without adver-
tising for bids. He was removed for
this, and the Grand Army men were
interceding for him. 1.-The trouble
with you soldiers" said the president,
sis, you think you are better than any
body else. You want your own way
all the time. and you want a good deal
Now, don't think you are better than
anyone else, and am not going to be
dictated to-"
The president sometimes, out of office
hours, wanders through the cabinet
room and Colonel Lamont's office into
the penetralia of books and papers
where Mr.. Prudens keeps account OF
all the presidential appointments. The
other day while in there the telephone
bell rang. The president took down
the instrument and answered the call
Some what to his surprise, he heard
the voice at the other end say, Hello
Prudy, you old sucker. Is that you
can tell by the Glove on your breath
How about those commissions Cap
tain John James Sylvester Hassler, the
appointment clerk of the interior de-
patment, was closing his days work
and wanted a batch of commissions
sent over to him. After explanations
Captain Hassler determined never tc
use a telephone hereafter without get